What can you see on the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea a pale moon rises
The ships have come to carry you home
The snipe they are crying and crying
Liadine, liadine, liadine
Winnow tracks on the bog they are flying:
A lonely dream will be mine
Sick of hauling your love around, want to run my train alone
But the engine tracks straight through your heart and weighs me like a stone
Three times I’ve sent you back from me, three times my boat’s gone dry
And three times I’ve seen the shooting shark lighting up the sky
There ain’t another rig that’s even half as big,
Hear him knocking.
Everybody’s gonna say “that train is smart”,
The mighty diesel engine is a work of art.
The undisputed leader of the Rolling Stock,
See me knock.
Out where the river broke, the blood wood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels, steam in forty five degrees
The time has come to say fair’s fair
To pay the rent to pay our share
Now’s the time to say goodbye
To all our family:
M-I-C, See you real soon,
K-E-Y, Why? Because we like you!
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing
Sing, sing a song
Let the world sing along
Sing of love there could be
Sing for you and for me.
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I’d heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn’t play
On the boats and on the planes
They’re coming to America
Never looking back again,
They’re coming to America
O yeah, all right
Take it easy, baby
Make it last all night (make it last all night)
She was an American girl
Booze and ladies treat me right
As long as we can make it to the show tonight
We’re an American band
I can feel the hand of a stranger,
And it’s tightening around my throat.
Heaven help me, heaven help me,
Take this stranger from my boat.
All the stories coming back to me
From my friends and the people I don’t want to see
The things they say I know just couldn’t be true
At least not until I hear it from you
I have the same dream every night
I wake up shaking in the morning light
I don’t know what could be expected of me
I only know that I believe what I see
And you, do you see what I see
Yeah you, do you see what I see
You believe on what you see
You receive on what you give
Do you believe in magic, in a young girl’s heart?
How the music can free her, whenever it starts
And it’s magic, if the music is groovy
It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie
You’re walking meadows in my mind,
Making waves across my time, oh no, oh no.
I get a strange magic
Oh, oh, oh, it’s magic, you know,
Never believe it’s not so.
You have to believe we are magic. Nothin’ can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic. Don’t let your aim ever stray
And if all your hopes survive, your destiny will arrive
I’ll bring all your dreams alive for you